Visualization, intuition, and mathematics metrics as predictors of undergraduate engineering design performance

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 735-743

  Field, Bruce W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENGINEERING DESIGN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 34547535673     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2722790     Document Type: Article

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